[PATCH V4 14/19] virtio_ring: determine descriptor flags at one time

From: Jason Wang
Date: Thu Jul 24 2025 - 02:43:28 EST


Let's determine the last descriptor by counting the number of sg. This
would be consistent with packed virtqueue implementation and ease the
future in-order implementation.

Acked-by: Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 21 ++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
index 2f0b14940e05..01bbbcd65417 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
@@ -570,7 +570,7 @@ static inline int virtqueue_add_split(struct vring_virtqueue *vq,
struct vring_desc_extra *extra;
struct scatterlist *sg;
struct vring_desc *desc;
- unsigned int i, n, avail, descs_used, prev, err_idx;
+ unsigned int i, n, avail, descs_used, err_idx, c = 0;
int head;
bool indirect;

@@ -627,6 +627,7 @@ static inline int virtqueue_add_split(struct vring_virtqueue *vq,
}

for (n = 0; n < out_sgs; n++) {
+ sg = sgs[n];
for (sg = sgs[n]; sg; sg = sg_next(sg)) {
dma_addr_t addr;
u32 len;
@@ -634,12 +635,12 @@ static inline int virtqueue_add_split(struct vring_virtqueue *vq,
if (vring_map_one_sg(vq, sg, DMA_TO_DEVICE, &addr, &len, premapped))
goto unmap_release;

- prev = i;
/* Note that we trust indirect descriptor
* table since it use stream DMA mapping.
*/
i = virtqueue_add_desc_split(vq, desc, extra, i, addr, len,
- VRING_DESC_F_NEXT,
+ ++c == total_sg ?
+ 0 : VRING_DESC_F_NEXT,
premapped);
}
}
@@ -651,21 +652,15 @@ static inline int virtqueue_add_split(struct vring_virtqueue *vq,
if (vring_map_one_sg(vq, sg, DMA_FROM_DEVICE, &addr, &len, premapped))
goto unmap_release;

- prev = i;
/* Note that we trust indirect descriptor
* table since it use stream DMA mapping.
*/
- i = virtqueue_add_desc_split(vq, desc, extra, i, addr, len,
- VRING_DESC_F_NEXT |
- VRING_DESC_F_WRITE,
- premapped);
+ i = virtqueue_add_desc_split(vq, desc, extra,
+ i, addr, len,
+ (++c == total_sg ? 0 : VRING_DESC_F_NEXT) |
+ VRING_DESC_F_WRITE, premapped);
}
}
- /* Last one doesn't continue. */
- desc[prev].flags &= cpu_to_virtio16(vq->vq.vdev, ~VRING_DESC_F_NEXT);
- if (!indirect && vring_need_unmap_buffer(vq, &extra[prev]))
- vq->split.desc_extra[prev & (vq->split.vring.num - 1)].flags &=
- ~VRING_DESC_F_NEXT;

if (indirect) {
/* Now that the indirect table is filled in, map it. */
--
2.39.5